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Work Life Conflict Theory

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2. Introduction
Currently, Balance the competing in and out of work interests becomes a crucial topic in the area of Human resource management and has got more consideration by workers, organizations and research expertise.

Work-life balance is a practice implemented in organizations with the intention of minimizing the conflict between work and life and help employees to be productive in both their work in other roles. Employees who face work-life conflict will not be effective in the roles he/she assumed in and out of his/her organization and as a result organizational performance will fall. Hence, implementing work life-balance policy in organizations benefits the organization as well as the employees.

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The study conducted by Kossek and Ozeki (1998) found that both WFC and FWC have negative relationships with job-life satisfaction. However, their study revealed both WFC and FWC have stronger relationship for women than men. Rupert, P. & et.al (2009) scrutinize the associations between WFC and burnout in a set of practicing psychologists. Their finding revealed that both WFC and FWC have significant relationship with burnout. In particular, conflict is associated with poor individual achievement, greater emotional exhaustion and depersonalization. However, their study indicated as there were no significant gender differences.

The extent of WFC has also relationship workaholism (work addiction). Andreassen and et.al (2012) conducted a study to see the relationship of workaholism with to private relations, leisure and health. In the study it is revealed that Workaholism can negatively influence private relations, leisure and health. This implies that workaholic employees are always in work-Life Conflict (ibid).

Besides, the research conducted by Fleetwood, S. (2007) revealed that Work-Life-Conflict has been associated with decreased employee job satisfaction, increased staff turnover and absenteeism, lower performance and increased job stress levels and, intention to leave the

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